In Elven Lands

In Elven Lands is an album by The Fellowship, released on 31 January2006. The Fellowship take a musicological approach to imagine how the ancient cultures described by J.R.R. Tolkien might have sounded, performing on an all-acoustic array of ancient and modern instruments that includes harp, lute, hurdy-gurdy, krumhorn and gong among a wide variety of others.

The songs on In Elven Lands are all drawn from aspects of J.R.R. Tolkien's Legendarium. The album title, In Elven Lands, is taken from the lyrics of their song 'Beware The Wolf':

...let us ride before the break of day, through woven woods in Elven lands, to find the starry-jeweled hand...

Second Edition

In Elven Lands (Second Edition) cover

On 5 November2012 a digitally remastered Second Edition of the album was released by Oglio Records. The Second Edition corrects some Quenya and Sindarin lyrics, and includes a performance of J.R.R. Tolkien's original version of Namárië as well as a song with lyrics by Tolkien Linguist Helge Kåre Fauskanger. In all, it includes five previously unreleased songs and two alternate versions of works from the first release.

Downloaded versions of the In Elven Lands Second Edition also include fully illustrated a 50-Page booklet in PDF form, with lyrics and album notes.